Mark Emmert

Maryland beat Penn State and Michigan in football — yes, those two teams were a little down — in its first year in the Big Ten. Both those wins were on the road as the Terps finished 7-6, 4-4 in the league last season. Randy Edsall, who has led Maryland to a pair of winning seasons since leaving UConn after the Fiesta Bowl in 2011, got a three-year extension that begins in 2017 and could be worth up to $7.5 million. He also got an increase of $71,000 in each of the final two seasons of his original contract. The media were tough on Edsall when he arrived in College Park. Look at him now. •Was that a ... yes, it was. A thoroughbred track that canceled races because deer...

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Maryland beat Penn State and Michigan in football — yes, those two teams were a little down — in its first year in the Big Ten. Both those wins were on the road as the Terps finished 7-6, 4-4 in the league last season. Randy Edsall, who has led Maryland...

As expected, the UConn men's basketball program earned another perfect score in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate, pushing any academic problems deeper into the past.
The Huskies, who were banned from the 2013 postseason due to subpar APR scores from...

CINCINNATI — Lauren Hill spent her final year polishing a layup and inspiring others to live fully. She succeeded at both as she fought an inoperable brain tumor. The 19-year-old freshman basketball player at Mount St. Joseph University died at a hospital...

INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA President Mark Emmert made it clear that the association would not tolerate discrimination and was willing to take its business out of Indiana if the state's religious objections law wasn't fixed to his satisfaction.Whether he and...

•Swing and a miss: Tufts senior pitcher Allyson Fournier from South Windsor and East Catholic High topped the 1,000-strikeout career mark Wednesday at Babson College. She is the 17th player in NCAA history and the fifth from New England to reach...

ALBANY — The year was 1985 and the NCAA women's Final Four was in Austin. Geno Auriemma remembers arriving at the University of Texas, looking around and thinking, "They have buildings bigger than our campus. It's another world."
Auriemma was...

There is no reason to feel one shred of sympathy for the academic fraud that is the University of North Carolina. Not if you are a UConn athlete, not if you are a UConn academic, not if you are a UConn fan. Not if you are standing in Storrs and looking...

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Last week, third-graders in Guilford gave me a spontaneous round of applause.
Why? Because the teacher introduced me as being from the University of Connecticut, where excellence in basketball has raised my profile, along with that of everyone else in...

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INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday he had considered the option of moving the organization's headquarters and said the association would look more closely at potentially discriminatory laws before awarding bids for future championship...

The governors of Arkansas and Indiana on Thursday quickly signed revised versions of their respective religious freedom laws, hoping to quell a national uproar that united business leaders and gay rights activists who fought the measures as potentially...

This is usually a happy time of year for college basketball, a chance for the game to take center stage with all eyes focused on March Madness.
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#BoycottIndiana. It's all the rage.
Indiana's 20th-century way of thinking has garnered the forces of social media to push back quickly and punitively. Say hello to the 21st century, Indiana. It's a time and place that frowns upon discriminatory, bigoted...

With the Final Four a week away from shining a spotlight on Indianapolis, NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday that the governing body for college sports is concerned about an Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against gay people....

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence vigorously defended the state religious objections bill that he signed into law Thursday as businesses and organizations including the NCAA pressed concerns that it could open the door to legalizing discrimination against gay...

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The NCAA approved an historic change on Thursday to allow the 65 schools in the five power conferences to write many of their own rules.
The 16-2 vote by the Division I Board of Directors took place at NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis.
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The infighting and bickering among NCAA leaders continued this week when the group's president, Mark Emmert, denied claims that the organization's enforcement unit wasn't doing its job.
Emmert, in an internal letter obtained by CBSSports.com, said it was...